The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-27

From the above answers 10 will DO. OBJ
served that not . aingle teacher answered
correctly us many as Que hall or the qucs-
lions. The law governing the Board, re-
quircd the teachers TO attain, al least an
average minimum OF 81 per cent. for
first grade, and 20 per cent. for second
before certificates could be Issued,
In grammar. the words, in small caps, In
the following verse were required TO be
passed:
"For WHO TO dumb FoRGETFuLNEss Il
PREY,
This pleasing, anxious BEING FER re-
SIGNED,
LEFT the warm precincts OF the cheerful
day,
Nor CAST one LONGING, lingering look
BEHIND"
Parse words in small caps
The following are some OF Miss Alayes'
answers:
ITO iorgotfulncss Is II verb in the inlina-
tive neutrality-suspicious. Is Itself noun,
modified by the adjective dumb"
cleft Is u verb and is modified by the
noun precincts, used rs un adyerbal ell
ement."
:" Cast Is u transltive verb and is modified
by look an adverbal clement"
The following are some OF Miss Soutcr's
answers In grammar:
"A phrase Is n proposition with its subject
and predicate" "Phrase--John has killed
a bird" "Synthesis is the separating Of
words into sylublcs.'
The following is Miss Willman's answer /;
A" a phrase may contain clause. even
several of them, but only one principal
clause, where's clause to be principal
must have complete sense In itself and con-
tain only one part. EX; Henry is going
hunting day aftcr-to-morrow. Henry is
going prin. clause"
Miss SOutCr proves the earth is round thus:
Z" The sun rises in the east aud gradually
disappears IRON us in going round the globe
westward, until 1t finally goes from sight:
then reappears ut first dimly then altogeth-
er"
The spelling of Misses souter and Will
mans was good, but we give below some Of
Miss Mayes' efforts.
Rule, spelled by her repeatedly "rool, y
fuel, fewel," rare, rair," bleed, bead,"
cast, cassed," explanation, " explanation"
separation, cooperation" arteries, "artries,"
capilares. " capilares," &C., &c.
Untold injustice has been done competent
teachers in Texas by seventy and mad
equale examinations, wherein ignorant and
half-educated applicants were imposed on
the public as teachers.
Mcasureless and irremediable injury has
been done the children.oi the State by thh
means. for their young lives and oppor-
tnnities are thus wasted beyond recall.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars are
wrung from the people by tiXation to sup
port these incompetents, many of whom
step into position rs u temporary eXpedi-
ent while waiting, Micawber like, for some.
thing better TO turn up.
If quacks N physic. shysters IN law,
superficial and intolerant blgoIs in religion
are by gradual survival oil the iittest and
by the spread of higher intelligence among
the people, being weeded out, there is no
good reason why this reform should over.
look the infinitely more important proies'
sion--that OF teacher. II teaching be q
profession and the name what 1t implies
some one capacltated by superior learning
to impart it to others-and the word be not
farcical misnomer, then ignorance and in
competency should no longer be permitted
to masquerade under the guisc or name OF
teacher. The profession of teacher is one
of the most dignited, important and eX
allied known among men, and 1t is due tt
ourselves and to the children of Texas thai
it be not by ignobIe and dlsgraceful parli'
atty brought into disrepute.
JAMES Is. SIMPSON,
CHARLES +. CRUTCHER.